'Moana 2’s' Barlow And Bear Opened Up About How They Deal With Criticism Amidst Comparison To Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'It Lives Forever'

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Now that "Moana 2" is officially available to stream with a Disney+ subscription, fans of all ages can officially put the movie on repeat as they have with the first "Moana" movie in the comfort of their homes. It was a huge success at the box office, earning the biggest global opening of all time for an animated movie, but a popular complaint among critics had to do with Barlow and Bear’s music in the shadow of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s "Moana" original songs. So when I sat down with the composers of "Moana 2," I had to ask the songwriting duo how they’ve handled themselves in the face of criticism.  I must say, Barlow and Bear had a solid take on the whole thing. Here’s what Abigail Barlow had to say when we talked at Walt Disney Animation for the Disney+ release press day.

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00:00I think it's important to like, go touch grass, you know, and like hang out with people who actually know you and like, know that this was two and a half years of like, such hard work, like, you know, like you said, Emily was on the Renaissance tour and barely slept for half of these writing sessions that we were doing.

00:17So it was just, it was a labor of love.

00:19And I think clinging on to that and like, just thinking about the positive of being a part of a legacy like Disney.

00:25I mean, it lives forever.

00:27And if my nephews love it, that's all I care about.

00:31People are going to be singing it for years.

00:32Continue.

00:33Yeah, my, my thing is, is if we reached, you know, a hundred people, if they like a hundred people really listen to these songs and it, and they, it meant something to them and they applied these things to their own life.

00:47Then we've done our job.

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